
This telegram was sent by a New Zealand soldier in Egypt to his family in Ōtāhuhu, Auckland, in December 1916. The message - 'Merry Xmas Cyril' - may have been from Cyril Walker Lowe, who was serving with the 1st New Zealand Machine Gun Squadron in the Middle East.
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Auckland War Memorial Museum
Reference: HE8429.N36 TEL
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'Christmas telegram from Egypt', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/christmas-telegram-egypt, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 1-Mar-2016
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